Every coach will do the same when feka is on the field now, the only way back for him now is putting some effort in at the gym and trimming down and gaining more stamina, the only worry being if he does lose some weight will he be as effective in attack?

He was just as effective and more then likely more effective when he was about 2-3 stones lighter only a couple of years back.

The guy is letting the team down at the moment and is letting himself and his immense talent down more then anything at the moment.

He needs to get back down to his NZ Warriors playing weight before he came here.

I agree, but who is at fault with his weight? Conditioning staff? Coach? Himself?

IMO it's mainly himself but some of the blame now should be shifting to the coaching staff. They pick the team and the guy needs to be taught a lesson.

He shouldn't be playing first team rugby at the moment imo. He should be having his own mini pre season in preperation for the play offs with the aim to get a stone off him and to get him fitter.

Irrelevant.

Sean Ainscough would have stopped him, won us the game, the cup, ended the war in Afganistan, stopped swine flu and cancelled big brother.

Can anyone tell me why we didn't put Richards opposite King? Surely this would have made a lot more sense.

Roberts problem isn't getting to the high ball but actually catching them! He caught a couple of beauties on attack early doors but then dropped ones in defence i'd have expected him to take.

I'd have hoped we have learned some lessons about defending them from the game at the HJ earlier this season but it didn't seem that way.

Jim Mills was overweight for years. When he trimmed down he became sensational.

for some reason noble seems to think that roberts is better than ainscough even though ainscough as scored 5 times more tries

I like Roberts, but the thing that annoys me with him is, that he actually gets up there, manages to catch the ball but drops it on his way down, theres nothing wrong with his ability to catch a high ball he just needs to work on keeping hold of it under pressure.
He has great footwork and speed and links up really well with Gleeson and Roberts, he wasnt our worst player on the field on Saturday and hes not been our worst player all season. Whether people like it or not he's here for the next 3 years so instead of knocking his confidence and slating him at every opportunity maybe we should actually support him and get him back on form. He is not the worst winger in the league, i would have him over Gardner, Meli, Hodgson and many others, in fact the only players in the league i would have on the wing over him thats not at wigan is Hicks, Donald and Hall.
The only thing that worries me though is that with Roberts and Richards here till 2012 and 2013 respectively where does that leave Ainscough in the future? He wont want to wait that long.

Why at half time didn't Noble change the team around? I mean come on, fair enough he dropped one ball and they scored, everyone makes mistakes, but giving warrington 3 tries cost us the game. He really needes to work on his catching practice, he backs away to easy.

De ja vu x 347.9